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Permalink Reply by Jeff on December 26, 2015 at 8:51am

Also an honorable mention to Pete Chuka, who contributes massively and regularly to educating us all on graph hunting!

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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on December 26, 2015 at 8:57am

Agreed! Plus there many others who go the extra mile to assist others. Too many to mention. It's a group effort.

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Permalink Reply by CJCollector on December 26, 2015 at 2:50pm

Without Mr. Cyrkin the situation with autographs would be a lot worse.

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on December 26, 2015 at 9:49am

Thank you for that, but there are dozens of people here that help far more than I can ever dream of doing. Star Wars and modern celeb graphing is such a small piece of this hobby. The people here who can cover music, baseball, space and just about anything you can collect are the ones deserving of thanks. They have helped me far more than I can help them, all I can do is my little part, and pay that help forward. 

Appreciation should go to Steve, he gave us this site, and he came and found me, I assume he did just that with the other people that regularly help to point out forgeries and give opinions. 

I can't even imagine the amount of money this site has saved collectors since it's inception.     

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Permalink Reply by Steve Cyrkin, Admin on December 26, 2015 at 5:34pm

Joe, Chris, Pete--thank you for the kind words. I really appreciate them. I'm proud of how the members of Autograph Live help autograph collectors avoid fraud and forgeries. And I'm so thankful for how much time and effort members like Chris, Roger, Pete, Steve Zarelli, Ballroom, Mike Shepherd, Wascher and many others put in here towards to help collectors collect better.

Many spend more time interacting with collectors here than I do.

Thank you...everyone. 

Steve

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Permalink Reply by Joe W. on December 26, 2015 at 5:40pm

Well deserved praise I may add. And, you have many good members who contribute. A good site begins with a good leader.

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Permalink Reply by Innuendo on December 26, 2015 at 5:42pm

Well said. This site is a great help to the hobby, and Steve really has pulled together a fab forum. Met some great people on here!

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Permalink Reply by Mike P on December 26, 2015 at 6:17pm

I agree .  This website is a must for all autograph collectors.  I wouldnt have half of the knowledge I have about autographs now if it wasn't for everyone here.  I can now spot fake Mantles with ease and other celebrities I wouldnt have had a clue about.  Thanks to Steve Cyrkin for keeping this site up and running!  

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Permalink Reply by Cogo on December 26, 2015 at 9:00pm

I agree with everone above, both regarding the praise for this site and for Steve alone that does a great job keeping it running!

I have 6 autographs uploaded here as my personal favorites:

http://live.autographmagazine.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?sc...

I have bought 3 of those from other Autograph Live members, the other 3 I bought after several members here helped me confirm its authenticity! To me that says a lot about how helpful and educative this site is!! :-)

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